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install from hard-disk

Darshak [darshak at elitecore.com]Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:25:20 +0530

HI,
I have no CDROM/Floppy. My red-hat linux ISO [ 2.6]are there into
HDD.Harddisk also contains red-hat linux-kernel2.4
I want to install that 2.6 kernel into hard-disk.
Can I do this?
In fedora -core while installation we can use From hard-disk.Can i make
my USB pendrive such that it also boots and asks the location of
hard-disk.And then continues installation.

Thanxs

Darshak

wireless card motorola 80211g dont work on ubuntu or knoppix im told it should

the boards ive seen say it does also im kinda new an defanitly no teckie or coder can ya help i dont use this email any more so pls answer this an send it to gmail its pacman269@gmail.com thanks o if you need to no im tryn to use christian ubuntu and knoppix 5 i guess its the new one out the laptop is a A22m stinkpad ibm bois says 800m an 384mof mem but everest says 647m an 384m for mem so i dont no what one is rite any way you look at it its old........ thanks pac.

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pen drive with linux

[j.bakshi at icmail.net]Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:53:24 -0800

First of all thanks to Ramon van Alteren for make me
familiar with some more linux router features.

now one more question is flying around my linux head
I have seen in suse that after plugin the usb pen drive ;
konqueror fires up automatically opening the drive.
I like to know the inner secret so that I can implement this
in my debian linux box.

Followup: Linux on AMD sempron (LG134)

Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at ptt.yu]Mon, 1 Jan 2007 15:52:16 +0100

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:29:38 +0530
Amit Saha wrote:

> Hi all!
>

Hi.

> I recently installed FC5 and FC6 on a newly acquired AMD 2800+ Sempron
> processor(64-bit). There are a few things i would like to get cleared
>
> 1. While the packages were being copied, I noticed the i386 extension
> packages being copied. Isnt i386 supposed to mean intel 80386?

"IA-32, sometimes generically called x86-32, is the instruction set architecture
of Intel's most successful microprocessors.
This is a 32-bit extension of the original Intel x86 processor architecture.
The term means Intel Architecture, 32-bit, distinguishing it from the preceding
16-bit x86 processors, and the later 64-bit architecture IA-64, also known as the Itanium architecture.
IA-32 has had such longevity partially because of full backwards compatibility.
The non-proprietary, generic name for this 32-bit architecture is x86-32."

> 2. The FC5 and FC6 that i installed on my 64-bit AMD was also installed on
> my 32-bit celeron. That means i am using 32bit OS on my 64-bit machine
> right? Will i gain performance by using FC5 for 64-bit?

Not FC5/FC6, but should give you some idea:
"Ubuntu i386 & x86_64 Compared"

Personally, I would take dual/quad core processor over 64-bit one any day

> Which is the best distro to use on AMD sempron 2800+ ?

Define 'best'.

Pedja

--
The choices you make, whether good or bad, make you
more of who you are and less of who you could be.

RealPlayer not playing well with others

Mike Orr [sluggoster at gmail.com]Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:22:35 -0800

I just set up a Kubuntu system with RealPlayer 10.0.8.805, and it
refuses to squack simultaneously with another noisemaker. It sulks
silently if kaffeine/kscd/kmix is open, and silences them when it's
playing. It's opening /dev/dsp directly rather than going through the
sound system.

The setup wizard says, "Alsa and esound drivers are not included in
this build. The OSS device used for playback can be set using the
AUDIO environment variable. eg export AUDIO=/dev/dsp2." But I've used
Real on Kububtu and Gentoo before without this problem.

gxine and kaffeine will play RealAudio files, but gxine distorts the
sound in an annoying way, and kaffeine crashes so frequently I forget
I'm not on Windows. (It even hung the system once with gray vertical
bars on the screen. I haven't seen that on Linux for years.)

Interestingly, when KMix is open Reaplayer is silent until I close
KMix and restart the audio clip a few times. But if RealPlayer is
running and I open KMix from the volume control in the tray, I can
adjust the volume with KMIx's PCM slider.

Diagnosing SATA problems

Neil Youngman [ny at youngman.org.uk]Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:23:58 +0000

I've been having problems with my SATA disk for some time and I've moved back
to working off my old IDE disk, while I investigate the problem. I'm assuming
the problem is hardware, but I don't have any suitable hardware to swap
around to prove the point. I think my next step is to buy another SATA
controller and swap that, but first I thought I'd see if the gang's
collective wisdom had any pointers to offer.

This happens whenever an X application starts, and sometimes when it
opens a new window. Apparently it retries a couple times and
succeeds, because I found one application that just gave up and
wouldn't start at all. I don't remember which one now, not one of the
X apps I'm currently using

how to share internet from a linux server

[j.bakshi at icmail.net]Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:43:52 -0800

kindly CC to me
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Dear list,

here is the actual situation which I like to share with you.
I have a Suse10 box with 2 lan card. I also have a 10 port
HUB.
Now I like to dial my ISP with one lan card and another lan
will be connected with the HUB. hence the other PCs can
share the net connection from the HUB. I like to implement
this. Could any one suggest any tutorial or suggest me to do
this ??

Computer crime/spam on the rise (via RISKS-LIST)

One of the best measures of the rise in cybercrime is junk e-mail, or spam,
because much of it is relayed by computers controlled by Internet criminals,
experts said. More than 90 percent of all e-mail sent online in October was
unsolicited junk mail, according to Postini, an e-mail security firm in San
Carlos, Calif. Spam volumes monitored by Postini rose 73 percent in the past
two months as spammers began embedding their messages in images to evade
junk e-mail filters that search for particular words and phrases. In
November, Postini's spam filters, used by many large companies, blocked 22
billion junk-mail messages, up from about 12 billion in September.

Gosh, who could possibly have predicted that content-based filtering
wouldn't work?

LOTS of other places as well, of course; Rick has been vocal enough
about SPF here, and I strongly suspect elsewhere as well. So have many
other people. It's just that now, the problem is coming to roost in a
big way, and all these people are now scrambling in panic.

Perhaps - one day, after the human race grows up - we'll all have a
reflex that causes us to do the obvious things that prevent problems
instead of focusing all our energies on emergency management. The latter
makes you look like a hero if you pull it off... but the chances of
failure, with attendant chances of damage or death, are high and not
very controllable. For now, we just get to watch the frenzied scrabbling
for a way out, with its usual outcome of mostly-wrong answers.

("I told you so"s may be personally satisfying but don't do much to
change the situation. As Honda's motorcycle safety ads say, "Stupid
Hurts.")

how to share cd writer from linux box ?

[j.bakshi at icmail.net]Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:21:27 -0800

kindly cc to me
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Dear list,

hope every one is happy with linux

Ok . now I have a little bit of problem with linux. my linux
server has a cd writer and
a DVD writer. the server already has samba. now what can I
do in my smb.conf file
so that windows clients can use both the writers of the
linux server ?

problem with 2 isp and sharing

hope every one is well in the new year and charged to do
more with linux

I have a critical problem with my net setting and searching
for some kind guidance.

well, I have 2 ISP and a load balancing router ( Linksys
RV042).
My one ISP, say ISP1 is based on ADSL technology. The modem
to dialup ISP1 is
smartATX MT841 and it has inbuilt dialing feature. so a
connection from this
smartATX MT841 direcly comes to WAN1 port the of the load
balancing router.

another ISP, say ISP2. now there is a PC with 2 lan card for
this isp2. one lan dialups
ISP2 and another lan card from this same machine fed this
connection to the WAN2 port
of the load balancing router.

till now there is no problem at all and the load balancing
feature is running great.

BUT the problem is with the PC which dialups the ISP2 and
fed the connection to
the load balancing router. it actually behaves like a modem.
so the user in that machine
can't share the local lan resources and we can't share the
resources of that PC.

could any one kindly suggest any solution please ?
thanks for the support.

problem configuring 2 lan with YAST in suse 10

[j.bakshi at icmail.net]Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:39:23 -0800

Dear list,

I am running a PC having suse 10. I have 2 lan card here
and like to configure 2 cards with different setting.
I have tried to configure the cards using Yast, but the
problem is ; 2 cards taking the same DNS, gateway etc from
the configuration which
I make latter. I think there may be some problem in yast,
so I like to do it manually. could any one suggest me the
file in suse 10 where I can
write configuration for eth0 and eth1 and could any one
kindly provide an example configuration

The interesting part is that Slashdot also mention Docvert[1]
(http://holloway.co.nz/docvert/index.html), an open source, web based
document converter - not an office suite, but at least the "host my
own" crowd have an option to view word processor documents (if they're
willing to run public-facing software that's based on OpenOffice or
Abiword...)

It's interesting that 3 of the 4 support importing and exporting
OpenOffice files (although ajaxPresents from Ajax13 gives nothing but
errors when you try to export openoffice, though their "own" .appt
format is openoffice!).

Please do my homework!

[[[ This was originally entitled something really descriptive like
"help!" I have retitled it with a more informative subject. (This was
also presented in html format rather than text, and responses
top-posted. I have corrected those errors in judgment as well.) - Kat
]]]

Hello sir.
I am projected to develpe a browser/programme to see files attributes (not the file contentes) of linux(ext2/ext3) from wondows operating sys.
I dont know from where should i start.please help me.

Followup: opening VA FullON 2230 (LG134)

(This is a response to your request for help, opening VA FullON 2230
just printed in Linux Gazette's issue #134.)

The article you read is correct, that it's necessary to remove the
CD-ROM / floppy assembly before getting to the HDs. Here's how:

Unscrew the two Philips screws on either side of the floppy drive.
Now, remove the top cover that is atop the rear 3/4 of the chassis's
top surface, so that you can reach the back of the CD drive. Reaching
inside the chassis, push the CD drive towards the front. This will
dislodge the six-inch-wide faceplate that houses the CD and floppy
drives, allowing it to slide forward.

A flange on that faceplate projecting sideways towards the hard drives
is the main obstacle to removing the twelve-inch faceplate in front of
the hard drives, which you now should be able to likewise dislodge
forwards. That faceplate contains two very noisy, small fans: FYI,
I've replaced those fans on my unit with quiet aftermarket fans, each
with a slide switch letting you select one of three speeds, making my
house a great deal quieter.

Once you have the twelve-inch faceplate removed, you can reach in from
the front to the four drive bays, a vertical pair on the left and a
similar vertical pair next to that. Each bay can accomodate a drive
sled that is fastened from the front with a Philips screw in the upper
left. Once you've removed the screw, the sled and attached drive should
slide forwards. (You'll want to detach any cables from the drive,
first.)

Speaking for the former staff of VA Linux Systems, I hope you get many
long years of enjoyment from your model 2230.

Best Regards,
Rick Moen

UML and vmware

J.Bakshi [j.bakshi at icmail.net]Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:54:42 +0530

Hi list,

Hope everyone is well here
I am little bit confused and seeking your guidance. I like to run a virtual
machine for experiment with different S/W. Both UML and vmware are there. I
like the S/W which gives less overhead to the CPU. occupies less Ram.
Provides faster speed and performance. In this scenario which will be
better ? could any one suggest ?

PS: Assume that both the virtual machines running with exactly same number of
applications.

Problem in Client when spawning multiple connections on socket

Amit Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:02:59 -0800

Hi list!
i need your advice. The situation is like this

We have a situation where we have a DEC Alpha Server with a Concurrent
Server which spawns a child to every process that we connect to. On a
Linux box on the same network, we have built a client which connects
to the server ,we see the connection and every things is good. At this
time we try to invoke another instance of the this client, at this
point it kills the first connection and the second one connects. We
are passing the Internet address of the server to connect.

If we have the client on the same server we can spawn multiple
instances and every instance connects, in this case though the address
127.0.0.1 or the local host.

Any pointers as to how we can have multiple client using the same socket.